User blog comment:Funsizedbear/I prefer PBB over real games/@comment-32358261-20180708102106

Personally I didn’t like PBB as much as core games because it lost things I really liked from core games.

The fact that hidden abilities were much harder to pass down, overall awful leveling curve (wild Pokémon 10 levels lower than your team, trainers 10 levels above your team. Stuck to long grinds), roaming pretty much if you wanted something that had any kind of value it was grind forever or pay robux. With core Pokémon games there isn’t this kind of issue.

Scams aren’t really the problem in core games. Yeah they exist but they are super easy to tell (example: GTS want lv100 mewtwo, give bidoof).

Look core games aren’t perfect, hacking plagues the community and PBB was much better in this aspect. Online wise PBB was better due to the ability to talk to others very easily (though this had some issues) but the rest I see core games as better.

Also can you explain the “harder to get lost” part? Do you mean you liked getting lost and exploring? Because this has unfortunately been lost in newer regions but regions Kanto, Johto, hoenn and sinnoh were less linear in region designs but after that the regions are all essentially circles.